GarryP Posted August 26, 2018 Posted August 26, 2018 Just keeps getting better and better. Very nice. Quote
jimmyplaysdrums Posted August 28, 2018 Author Posted August 28, 2018 On 8/23/2018 at 10:41 AM, GarryP said: I don't know about Tarot but to use these as a normal pack of cards you need to have two colours, traditionally red and black. If you have four colours then, if someone is using them in a normal card game - e.g. solitaire, how do they know if green goes on blue or red or black? So I've been trying out some variations on coloring. I'd like to keep the 4 color suits but also thinking about what @GarryP said about some games needing to pair up traditionally RED and BLACK cards together. So in this example, each suit still has it's own color but the Diamonds and Hearts also share a central banner color while the Club and Spades share a common banner color so if you're playing Solitaire then you'd know the central banner colors would need to be alternating for proper play. The common banner colors here are Yellow and Purple. (Keep in mind the actual colors aren't really finalized. I just quickly chose these to see how it looks roughly. I still need to come up with a proper color pallet.) A_B_C, GarryP and Dazmondo77 3 Quote
jimmyplaysdrums Posted August 28, 2018 Author Posted August 28, 2018 Anyone have suggestions on how I should choose the color pallet? I’m having designers block… Quote
GarryP Posted August 29, 2018 Posted August 29, 2018 For colour palettes in general I've found this site http://www.colourlovers.com/ to be very useful in the past. (It's changed quite a bit since I was last in there but it seems to do the same things as I remember.) There's more in there than first meets the eye so it's worth exploring. As for the palette for these cards in particular, that depends on so many things it's difficult to say. Below are links to some of my (current) favourite designs, maybe one of them will give you some inspiration: * Stylish - http://lovelypackage.com/run-playing-cards/ * Steampunk - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kingswildproject/wasteland-playing-cards-illustrated-by-jackson-rob * Industrial - https://capitalcards.com.au/product/deck-one-industrial-edition-playing-cards * Tattoo - https://www.pokershopeurope.co.uk/club-tattoo-playing-cards-by-bicycle-black-blue-yellow-202-p.asp * Mysterious - http://lovelypackage.com/stranger-stranger-christmas-playing-cards/ * Steampunk (again) - http://www.thedieline.com/blog/2012/1/5/steampunk-playing-cards.html * Zombie - https://www.bicyclecards.com/product/bicycle-zombified-playing-cards/?category=playing-cards#filter * Just Plain Weird - https://www.artofplay.com/products/odd-bods For your cards, I think I would try using the same sort of palette as the "Odd Bods" cards. The clean lines of your designs mixed with the washed-out colours might make a good - juxtapositioned - pairing. Alfred and jimmyplaysdrums 2 Quote
Alfred Posted August 29, 2018 Posted August 29, 2018 22 minutes ago, GarryP said: For your cards, I think I would try using the same sort of palette as the "Odd Bods" cards. Those are great, but the black suits are still black and the red suits are still red. I did notice, however, that the ♣2 looked slightly blue in one of the photos, which prompted me to wonder whether you could use (say) black and blue for spades and clubs, and red and orange for hearts and diamonds. GarryP and jimmyplaysdrums 2 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
GarryP Posted August 29, 2018 Posted August 29, 2018 I'd say that's an excellent suggestion which gets my vote. I had a bit of a play about and came up with the attached image/file (apologies for the spade/club symbols, it was done quickly). I'm sure other people could come up with better colours. Edit: I think the spade and club colours should be the other way round from how I put them. playing card suits.afdesign jimmyplaysdrums and Alfred 2 Quote
jimmyplaysdrums Posted August 31, 2018 Author Posted August 31, 2018 Thanks for the tips! On vacation this week but will be back next week and will post what I’ve come up with. Quote
jimmyplaysdrums Posted September 13, 2018 Author Posted September 13, 2018 A new update with some added colors and also some more court card additions/modifications. I'm thinking maybe the gold colored parts could be printed with gold foil ink and the rest would be regular colors. Still a lot of work and refining to do but let me know what you think so far! GarryP, A_B_C, Alfred and 1 other 4 Quote
GarryP Posted September 14, 2018 Posted September 14, 2018 As I said before, better and better every time. jimmyplaysdrums and A_B_C 2 Quote
jimmyplaysdrums Posted September 17, 2018 Author Posted September 17, 2018 As for the 4 color suits. I'm really on the fence about this one. I really like how they look but I understand a lot of people prefer standard red/black decks. I need to think about what kind of audience I'm trying to make this deck for. Here's super rough mock-up of red/black to see how it could look. What do you guys think? StuartRc and Wosven 2 Quote
A_B_C Posted September 17, 2018 Posted September 17, 2018 I think I like the multi-colour version better, but as you said, it depends a little on the target audience. In a way, I believe traditionalists are not the primary target group of your design, so I imagine a multi-colour version could work quite well. But I must confess I have been playing cards too infrequently in recent years that I could really afford an opinion here. So come on, card players, what do you think? jimmyplaysdrums 1 Quote
jimmyplaysdrums Posted September 28, 2018 Author Posted September 28, 2018 Here's another attempt with coloring. The color of the K,Q,J, and A letters share Red/Black colors while the pips are still 4 colors. I still need to redo the numbered cards with this design but I have the court cards updated so far. Thoughts? DeyanApp, RM10 and GarryP 3 Quote
GarryP Posted September 28, 2018 Posted September 28, 2018 Very nice. The lettering is better too. jimmyplaysdrums 1 Quote
RM10 Posted September 28, 2018 Posted September 28, 2018 I really like your character concept artwork. Death, green Jack,red A and red King are my favourites. Very good! jimmyplaysdrums 1 Quote INTEL I5 3470 | 8GB DDR3 1600MHZ | SSD EVO850 500GB | MSI 1050 TI 4GB Windows 10 | Affinity Designer 1.7.0.209 | Affinity Photo 1.7.0.209 | Affinity Publisher 1.7.0.206
jimmyplaysdrums Posted October 6, 2018 Author Posted October 6, 2018 Update with the numbered cards included. Still struggling with choosing the colors. Aces still need a lot of work. Court card faces need color... Also still working on backs. (Click thumbnail to see full size version) iuli, A_B_C, StuartRc and 1 other 4 Quote
BARBAKANE Posted October 7, 2018 Posted October 7, 2018 I'm surprised no one has mentioned this before. Death, The Fool, and the Magician are the most open to interpretation, therefore they should warrant the most attention to detail. Those would obviously be the crossover cards from deck to tarot. The Wheel of Fortune could be you double-backer or ad card. Look to Theory11. Good Luck and I look fwd to seeing updates as it develops jimmyplaysdrums 1 Quote
AdamRatai Posted July 21, 2019 Posted July 21, 2019 Just found this thread - Lovely! jimmyplaysdrums 1 Quote
kpshk Posted April 9, 2020 Posted April 9, 2020 Just stumbled across this thread as I'm thinking of doing something similar! My graphic design skills aren't very advanced, so I was just wondering whether there was a certain template you used as a basis for your cards? Or did you do everything from scratch? jimmyplaysdrums 1 Quote
GarryP Posted April 9, 2020 Posted April 9, 2020 I don’t know if jimmyplaysdrums is still looking at the forums – his last logged-in visit seems to have been October 2018 – so I don’t know if you will get an answer from him, but I think he created everything from scratch using his own artwork. Quote
jimmyplaysdrums Posted April 9, 2020 Author Posted April 9, 2020 @kpshk I did it all from scratch. I haven't been working on them for a while though so I'm not sure if/when they'll be finished. Maybe now with this whole corona thing going on in the world I'll actually have some more time to work on it since everyone seems to be staying home for the foreseeable future here. Quote
zypher69 Posted April 10, 2020 Posted April 10, 2020 Very creative. I know I couldn't do anything like that. Great idea. jimmyplaysdrums 1 Quote
jimmyplaysdrums Posted April 10, 2020 Author Posted April 10, 2020 @zypher69 Thanks! Now that it's been brought up again I've had several new ideas for the cards! Will post an update when I get them into the design. zypher69 1 Quote
GarryP Posted April 11, 2020 Posted April 11, 2020 Looking forward to seeing new versions of these. Quote
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